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Social search: Aardvark invitations - 94 days ago

Aardvark is a new, Web 2.0 product aiming to bring social search to the masses: unlike traditional search engines, that crawl and index a massive number of pages, Aardvark acts more like a router: it tries to understand enough of the question to...
Topics: Search, Web 2.0

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Lie to Me - 114 days ago

While bedridden, I serendipitously discovered this amazing new TV series — it does not even have enough user ratings yet — starring Tim Roth as a House-esque face-reader.Surprisingly thoughtful, well-plotted, and with a diverse range of...
Topics: Uncategorized

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Rawhide on Dell Mini 9 - 118 days ago

My new netbook arrived on Thursday, 13 days earlier than expected. Dell really need to work on their delivery estimates, but it’s better than having it be late…This was one day after I came down with a really bad cold — still shrugging..
Topics: Fedora

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Application bundles: system integration - 336 days ago

In my comments on the recent LWN seed “Will LSB 4 Standardize Linux?”, I made the argument in favour of application bundles:The advantage of bundles is that it contains more metadata than a simple tarball.Compatibility problems might arise,...
Topics: FLOSS

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Vista: 64-bit usage climbing - 336 days ago

We from the multilib-enabled Linux world extend a belated welcome to our Windows-using counterparts clipped from arstechnica.comUnlike Apple, Microsoft does not control the hardware that its software runs on. This means that Apple can more easily move...
Topics: Linux, Microsoft

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